472  Status  of  American  Pharmacy.  {^odZbe^mi1*' 
Pharmaceutical  Convention,  was  assembled  on  the  call  of  the  three 
colleges  of  pharmacy,  New  York,  Philadelphia  and  Boston ;  and  at 
the  meeting  when  the  name  was  established  and  adopted,  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  five  colleges  of  pharmacy 
and  one  pharmaceutical  society  are  recorded  as  being  represented, 
viz: — Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy,  College  of  Pharmacy  of 
the  City  of  New  York,  Richmond  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Cin- 
cinnati College  of  Pharmacy,  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy,  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy. 
There  have  sprung  from  these  educational  centres  those  influences 
that  demanded  higher  qualification  to  safeguard  the  public  welfare, 
and  in  course  Boards  of  Pharmacy  have  been  established  in  many 
of  the  States  of  this  continent  and  laws  have  been  enacted  to  regu- 
late the  practice  of  pharmacy.  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations 
have  gathered  inspiration  from  this  mother  Association  of  ours, 
whose  laws  are  patterned  after  our  constitution,  and  the  greatest 
success  of  the  State  Association  is  with  those  who  adhere  closely  to 
the  custom  and  program  of  annual  work  as  defined  by  this  Associa- 
tion, and  it  is  noteworthy  that  many  of  the  annual  reports  are  valu- 
ble  additions  to  pharmaceutic  literature. 
We  may  here  recall  the  names  of  some  of  the  illustrious  men  who 
made  a  record  well  deserving  a  place  in  this  paper:  Charles  T. 
Carney,  Samuel  L.  Colcord,  George  F.  H.  Markoe,  Charles  A.  Tufts, 
E.  R.  Squibb,  P.  W.  Bedford,  William  Procter,  Jr.,  Edward  Parrish, 
John  M.  Maisch,  Israel  J.  Grahame,  Elias  Durand,  an  honorary 
member ;  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  Charles  Bullock,  Joseph  Laidley,  E.  S. 
Wayne,  W.  Silver  Thompson,  Ferris  Bringhurst,  Charles  A.  Hein- 
itsh,  Charles  Rice,  W.  Scott  Thompson.  Joseph  Laidley  and  Ferris 
Bringhurst  lost  their  lives  by  accident  in  pursuit  of  their  profession; 
the  former  through  gunpowder  explosion,  the  latter  whilst  manufac- 
turing oxygen  gas. 
The  roll  is  a  long  and  honorable  one  ;  we  cannot  name  them  all, 
as  this  is  not  to  be  a  memoriam  roster,  but  will  serve  to  fix  the 
characters  who  each  in  their  sphere  are  more  or  less  identified  with 
the  progress  of  the  science.  Most  of  those  named  have  contributed 
largely  to  our  work  by  word  and  pen,  and  here  let  it  be  recorded 
we  are  passing  in  review  the  acts  of  men  who  have  rounded  their 
lives;  the  work  of  the  living  we  dare  not  embody  in  this  paper,  the 
worthy  men  of  to-day  are  legion,  but  they,  not  having  finished  their 
